The Department of Veteran Affairs has opened a new call center in Atlanta to provide suicide prevention and crisis intervention services to more veterans in need of assistance. The veteran crisis line
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has rolled out a web-based tool designed to help veterans gain access to VA’s healthcare enrollment form. According to a VA blog entry posted Thursday, the new healthcare application tool available
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Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Deputy Secretary Sloan Gibson have highlighted VA’s ongoing efforts to transform its healthcare system during a meeting with the Commission on Care in Washington, The Christian Science Monitor reported
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Sloan Gibson, deputy secretary for the Department of Veterans Affairs, has said efforts are underway at VA and the Defense Department to make the agencies’ electronic health record systems interoperable, Federal Times
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The House’s and Senate’s veterans affairs committee leaders have agreed on a measure to address appointment backlog problems at VA hospitals, Federal Times reported Monday. Kelly Kennedy writes the deal reached by
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Dr. Carolyn Clancy, who joined the Department of Veterans Affairs in August 2013, will assume the role of VA undersecretary for health in an interim capacity beginning July 2. Acting VA Secretary
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has created a nine-member committee that will evaluate potential candidates for the position of VA undersecretary for health. VA said Tuesday the panel is comprised of government
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Sloan Gibson laid out what his priorities would be as deputy director of the Veterans Affairs Department at his nomination hearing before a Senate panel Tuesday, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jack
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Beth Cobert, a senior partner and director at McKinsey & Co., will be nominated by President Obama to serve as the Office of Management and Budget‘s next deputy director for management, Federal
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